PLATE IX.
RUSKIN HALL,
BOURNVILLE.
PLATE X.
MEETING HOUSE,
BOURNVILLE.
PLATE XI.
MEETING HOUSE,
BOURNVILLE.
It is not proposed to deal here with the economics of model village or garden city schemes generally. Though the movement is still very young, it is already advancing from the problematical stage. Its progress is being watched with the keenest interest by many who realise that of all courses the most impracticable in the long run is that which allows the slum-suburb to spring up unchecked.
If it be asked, with regard to the problem of the housing of the people, what is Bournville’s contribution towards its solution, it would be stating its claims at the lowest to say that it stands as an example of what the village of the future may be, a village of healthy homes amid pleasant surroundings, where fresh air is abundant and beauty present, and where are secured to its people by an administration co-operative in nature numerous benefits which under present conditions are denied them elsewhere.
COTTAGES AT £135, with Notes on the Economic Building of Small Cottages.
PLATES XII AND XIII.
COTTAGES IN BLOCKS OF EIGHT, AT £135.
